White Queen
May French-Sheldon and the Imperial Origins of American Feminist Identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10045473 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B G Smith, Brady O Smith (0000-0003-1286-0852, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 550-551 |
| Publication date | 2006-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4486312 |
| OpenAlex | W2327928757 |
| Language | EN |
White Queen chronicles the fascinating life of May French-Sheldon (1847–1936), an American who lived most of her life in Britain and whose reputation grew from well-publicized trips to Africa made without male supervision. Her American husband, the international businessman Eli Sheldon, endorsed her first trip to Africa in 1891, though he died soon after, leaving French-Sheldon strapped for funds. After that, French-Sheldon profited from the support of luminaries such as Henry Stanley, Henry S. Wellcome, W. T. Stead, and King Leopold II of Belgium to sponsor her next foray into the “dark continent” in 1903–1904. She made a brief visit to Liberia in 1905–1906 to negotiate an agreement to start a large agricultural and commercial venture that she would run. The result of all this travel was international acclaim based on her writing and numerous speaking engagements that lasted well into the interwar years even as French-Sheldon was in her eighties
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Biography · Economic history · Genealogy · Identity (music · Negotiation · Political science · Queen (butterfly · Reputation · Special Relationship · TRIPS architecture · White (mutation · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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